Supply Chain Visibility: Control Tower Approach

A multi-objective approach to supply chain visibility and risk

This paper investigates the twin effects of supply chain visibility (SCV) and supply chain risk (SCR) on supply chain performance. Operationally, SCV has been linked to the capability of sharing timely and accurate information on exogenous demand, quantity and location of inventory, transport related cost, and other logistics activities throughout an entire supply chain. Similarly, SCR can be v...

Understanding local pharmaceutical supply chain visibility

Supply Chain Visibility (SCV) is currently a hot topic for the supply chain and logistics industry. In order to provide technology and commercial intelligence to understand industrial needs for potential research in this area, this project is aimed to conduct technology analysis and market research for a specific industry sector, local pharmaceutical supply chain, to understand their requiremen...

Supply Chain Control Dashboards

Global Supply Chain Control

The operation of global manufacturing network is challenging due to the complexity in product and information flow, diversity in sites, localization and processes and the information processing needed for control. Thus information technology has to be developed to cope with this complexity and to develop decision support for controlling the network. In this paper the concept of the Global Contr...

Assessing the Effects of Enhanced Supply Chain Visibility Through RFID

The majority of RFID implementations can be traced back either to mandates issued by companies or institutions with significant market power like Wal-Mart or the U.S. Department of Defense, or to the replacement of existing Auto-ID technologies like barcodes. Only sporadically is RFID being used to derive superior information about current processes in order to create supply chain visibility. I...